Not a whole lot of info available yet, but apparently the shooter has been ‘neutralized.’
And this is after a multiple shooting, yesterday, in Texas:
Is this latter story worthy of its own thread?
Sigh.
#Murica!!
“‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens”
–The Onion
I think everyone’s speechless. I’m too sad to write more.
I agree.
This happened on the 34th anniversary of Canada’s second-most deadliest mass shooting - the “Ecole Polytechnique massacre” in which 14 women died.
Mark it’s interesting to read about the development of Poly SeSouviant after the shooting. I was only reading about Wikipedia but saw how it’s a challenge to get gun control in Canada.
Three people were killed in a shooting at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) campus on Wednesday, according to police officials, who confirmed that the suspect was also dead.
A fourth victim was critically wounded in the attack, which took place at approximately 11.45am local time, the Las Vegas metro police department said.
A very surprising (to me) killer:
I would have guessed that he would have been 40 years or so younger than his 67 year age.
Dementia? “Professor” meaning “once taught and was fired from an adjunct instructor gig”? More details to come, I’d imagine.
Okay, I’ve looked at his CV. It’s weird–quite extensive until you notice that nowhere does he state that he’s an associate professor (as he represented himself elsewhere), or even state his employer and title explicitly. There’s a list of classes taught that includes the previous universities, but no indication of his status there. I’m not saying he wasn’t an associate professor, but neither can I see that he was. The vita also lists every reference letter he wrote (by name) and every reference phone interview. In addition to this being a potential FERPA violation, it’s really odd. I’ve reviewed hundreds of academic job applications and never seen anyone do this. Arguably, I was in different academic disciplines than he was, but it seems strange to me; at the least, it seems like resume padding. Mostly, though, it looks like the CVs of people who were misrepresenting themselves. Again, it could be a different academic culture, but my first impression is that I’d have red-flagged a job application.
We had a professor in Canada who shot and killed four colleagues, back in 1992. He was diagnosed with extreme paranoia, but was found competent (just barely) to stand trial.
Convicted by the jury and serving a life sentence.
Fuck the LVMPD…& any other public safety agency that thinks it’s acceptable to only put out public safety messages on some social social media channel, with third-party companies with their own T&C & that people may not use for one reason or another. It’s fairly easy to setup software, today, on a non-crisis day to put public safety messages on multiple places, including your website so that they go to FB, X & your website all at once. Not everyone uses FB or Twitter X. I both googled “twitter & LVPD” & went to their website & clicked on the link for X; both take you to the exact same place, tweets about the mass shooting…on Oct 2, 2017; IOW, it doesn’t look like they tweeting anything yesterday but I did see direct links to tweets that they did put out. I wasn’t at UNLV, in Lost Wages, in NV, or even in that time zone but you’d have to think that there might be people on campus on any given day that are there for a meeting, conference or to take a tour, IOW that aren’t there regularly & wouldn’t follow you in advance of something happening.
So one wonders if these faculty were involved in the decision to not hire Mr. Polito?